Waking Up To Foolishness

We only wake up when we realise how foolish we’ve been to believe what others say. Realising our ultimate truth isn’t easy, either in the secular or non-secular world. The secular world is only interested in material words for gain. The non-secular world is dominated by religious words for gain.

Words are a biased filter in the mind; actual experience is seeing directly through the eyes, rather than seeing through the ideologies. Well-educated or well-indoctrinated are the same things – being unable to see clearly.

We acquire ideas and then project them as our own, colouring everything that we see. So, we see through a glass darkly. Even if our words are very clever, it’s still second-hand programming, and we get angry and defensive when others don’t believe us. This is so ridiculous, as we now think of disbelievers as an enemy.

When we wake up, we walk alone,
and we are no longer dependent.

Waking up is not complicated; it is just seeing, pure awareness, pure consciousness without any fixed ideas.

In other words, just seeing without attitude,
being neither clever nor special.

Seeing clearly is the clarity of divine splendour.
It is that magnificent.

Splendour: late Middle English, from Latin splendere – ‘shine, be bright’.